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RHEOMATC PEOPIf NOW FM) RELIEF By Driving the Poisonoas Acid From the System. Rheumatism attacks p«opl« when the blood to ttalB and watair or cluff«d mp with ImpurlUM, thus set- ting ap InflanuBstion ot the muscles and JoiaU. Cold, w«t w«atb«r or •harp winds mar start the pains, but ths oaus« Is rootsd la th« blood, and to fst rsllet it must be treated throngh the blood. A* a blood builder and norre tonic Dr. WUllame' Pink Pllli are unsurpassed, and (or that reaeon do not fall to give relief to rheumatic sufferers wlien given a fair trial. Among the rbeomatic sufferers who haTe proved the great yalue of this medicine Is Mr. N. M. Foley. Windsor, N.B.. who says:â€" "My trou- ble aUrted with a bad <»>ld, the result of workinc In a heavy rain atorm. BVcm that It developed Into rheu- matism which badly crippled me and kept me confined to bed for upwards of six months. The doctor who treat- ed me did not help me, and every friend who called to see me had some- thing different to advise. Some of these remedies I tried, but with no bet- ter results. My legs were stiff from the hips down, and ever? move I made caused Intense pain, and con- stantly I was growing weaker. Then a friend from Falmouth, who came to see me, asked If I had tried Dr. Wil- liams' Pink PUIS. I had taken so much medicine without benefit that I was sl^eptical and said so. My friend, bowever, had so much faith in the pills that he got me a supply and to plesse him I began taking them. I had not been taking them long when ;I began to feel a change for the bet- ter, and I gladly got a further supply. Soon I was able to get out ot bed and (iralk around on crutches. Still tak- ing the pills I used in all aeveateen |boxes, by which time I was a well man and at work every day. Now I always keep a box of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills In the house and If I feel an acbe or pain I take them, and al- ways with good results. I believe I would still be a bed-ridden cripple but for these pills, and I shall always praise and recommend them." You can get these pills from any medicine dealer or by mall at 50 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- cine Co.v BrockviUe, Ont. London in its drive to tone up such suocees here. The photogi-aph fog.?m«tl;tre<l kiddip.s is adopting tlie ;-:-i'sli Mr nuiveineiit. insugaled with shows a group ait Barliam Ifouae, St. Leonard's. ITER Can You Judge Distances? If you devote your Saturdays to golfing, shooting, or taking photo- • graiAs, you have, in all probability, met the problem of judging distances'. Bear in mind these few eimple rules, ' and your dIflSciUty will be lessened. â-  With the naked eye, if you have aver- . age sight, you can eee the whites of peoples eyes at thirty yards; at eighty yards you can Just see their eyes. When all parts of their body are dis- ' tlnguishable, they are 100 yards away ; 'when the outlines of their faces are . Just visible, the distance is 200 yards ; . and when a faoe appears as a separ- . ate dot, you should be 400 yards away. Six hundred yards away a group of people can be distinguished singly; ' but at a farther distance than this no â-  jdetall of the human form can be deter- ♦ imlned. Yet at 1,200 yards you should . be able to' tell a man on horseback • from a man on foot; at 2,000 yards he â-  is simply a dot on the landscape. The majority of people, too, are un- â-  able to determine the wind's velocity. jWhon the smoke from a chimney flioves in a straight, vertical column. It means that a one to two-mlIes-«n- ihour breeze is Mowing. A three-miles •a-hour wind will Just stir the leaves on the trees. Twenty-flve miles Bin hour will »way . the trunks ; at forty, the small bra&ch- , 'm will break; and It takes a mile-«r minute gale to anap the trunks of big trees. "1 snail consent to nothing until af- ter Millie Is twenty-one," she said. Millie was tearful. "But he's got to go to India for five yeara,~and we wanted to marry before he left!" Katharine was adamant. She said, to, In a moment of anger, that she did not know how Millie could so easily contemplate leaving her afteo" all 6'he'd done for her. Poor Millie! Poor Katharine! It was a stormy scene. But Katharine stood to her guns. She remembered suddenly, with a shade of annoyance, that it was only through herself that MUlle had known John. He was the brother ot someone she had known in the old days. John was an orphan, too. It had been that partly, periiaps, which had drawn him to Millie. With his broth- er Jim, he had always lived with an aunt aad uncle. Jim had been killed at the age of twenty-three during the war. And now John was twenty-three himself. He was due to sail at the end of e^d iat Those Others Who foung. ove^mber. Well, he would leave'wlth. heavy heart. Out of the Past. Katharine was not surprised to see a Iter from ,Iohn on her plate on the jrnlng of November 11th. He had -eady made many appeals to her. It was a short note, but sometlhing another letter â€" fell from th© envel- 3 as she read: 'Dear Katharine, â€" I was turning out t night and' came acroeu' tAie en- sed. It was amongst the lest of I'B things which came home from mce. Auntie gave them to me to k over. Somehow I had not cared do this before, but it is neceeeary t e^-erything should be cleaired up ore 1 go away. 1 send this as 1 ak you may care to keep it. â€" John." ihe turned to look at the letter. It St have been nearly ten years old. was written In the round, girlish iting which had been hem long ago. e sight of it made her heart grow Id. She opened It with tentative jgers, and read. The Wisdom of Youth. It would bo cruel to give that letter here la Its entirety â€" let it sufflce to say that there were many crosses at the end of it and it wee signed "Kitty." Yet one sentence Jumped out at her: "Yes; I've thougirt hard Jimmy, as I promised you, and we will be married during your next leave. I know we aire young, but let us take what the gods give while we may " Katharine sat for a long time think- ing. She had forgotten that she had ever been foolish enough to scribble kisses at the end of a letter. And ©he had often wondered whether he had received her letter. It had not been returned unopened with some of the others. She saw now from the postmark that he must have received It the day before ho died. ^ Ah, well, for them it had been too late! The gods hadn't given them their chance of being young and fool- ish â€" or was it Just being divinely wise?. But these other two? She turned to the telephone and asked for John's number. CHILDREN UKE BABY'S OWN TABLETS Because They Are Tasteless and Are Easy to Take. One of the strongest points in favor of any medicine for children is that it Is so agreeable that the mother does not have to force It down the little one's throat. Baby's Own Tablets have no drug taste, may be crushed to a powder if desired, and babies like them. They are perfectly safe for they contain no opiate or narcotic. They sweeten the ' stomach and remove the cause ot I fretfulnese. Mrs. Arthur Charlebois, Pawtucket, { R.I., says : "I have found Baby's Own j Tablets to be a gentle laxative and a safe remedy for stomach disorders In children. Our little boy had been given harsh cathartics but these tab- lets worked more effectively without the severe griping. I can recommend them to all mothers of little children." Baby's Own Tablets are sold by medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., BrockviUe, Ont. Suntames and Their Origin The Son of a Fisherman. "Are We goln' to keep him?" asked Bobby, looking at his new baby brother. . "Of course. Why not?" asfled tbs mother. * "Well, he's so small I thought ntay- be we'd have to put him back." Origin of Toasts. The custom of drinking "tossts" la < derivsd from the aacleat reUgloos . ceremony of pouring libation* to th« ^ heathen god*. â€"â€"â€"â€"♦â€"â€".â€" Gypsies in the Central States of the ^ U.S.A. are abandoninff their caravans •for Mgh-powered motor ears, althoag>h ' ithe occupants stiil dress much in tb* • traditional gypsy fashions. WE WANT CHURNING CREAM :lW« rapplT cans asd pay sx^eaa •(Siuuvw. W» pay daily by sxpreM :moB«y or4«n, whloh oui be casbed .'aar«k«r> y^itlimit any ohafge. .'^ To wtftttt £• top prictk CrMUB ' BMSt bo tTM txoB bad fltTors a^ . eml^ Kot Ism titan 10 per eaat BatUr TtA. BowM Company LiBitedl» Toranlo ftr r«f«rae«»^R«ad OSes, Toroato^ Vuhof lloatrMl,or yoor local beidnr. '' Mitabltobod Oh ever tklrty 7< HALL. Variations â€" Hales, Sale, Sales, Sahi, LaSalle, Lasalle. Racial Orialn â€" English, French and Qerman. Source â€" A locality. This group of family names, repre- sentative of development in three dif- tsrent languages, belongs to that clas- slflcation of surnames which at first wer* iodloatlve of the place of resi- dsnoe of the Individual, or the locality with which he was connected in tiie minds of those with whom he came in contact, and who naturally distinguish, ed him from other liidivlduals of the same clven name by reference to this. In Kngland there was the word "hall," tlie same that we now use in the sence of "publlo hall," or "great hall." In French there was the word "saUe," with ai>proximately the ssune meenlnc, but which since has oome to be equivalent to "room" with them, and which was Introduced into English by the Normans to come down to us as "saloon." In German ths word was "sahl," and still is. Thus the original surnames, with proper prefixes, meant the same thing in the various languagss. Hall, of course, betrays the origin In Anglo-Saxon speech. Hales Is some- times, but not always, a development ot this. L>atall« 1* French, with one ot the prefixes hicorporatsd. Sahl is Qerman. Bale and Sales represent an IhiglMi dev^opment of the family name from a French or Anglo-Norman befinnlng. POLLOCK. Variationsâ€" Polleck, Poole, Pool. Racial Orlfllnâ€" Seettiah and Ensllsh. •earea â€" A loeality. Two forma ot this family name while Scottlah and traceable in ths last analysis to a Oaallc source, are Bot naoeasarlly to ba muaberad la the list ot the highland clan name*. Pollaok and Pollock, like the Eng- lish forms, Poole and Pool, are purely place names, with the same meaning, except that In the case of the Scottish forms the origin lies mostly In an ac- tual place name, while in the English forms it represente merely the descrip- tion of a locality. There is a parish In Renfrewshire, Scotland, named Pollock, and this name is supposed to come from the Gaelic word "poUcg," with the mean- ing of a "little pool" or "pond." It la a safe assumption that the earliest bearers ot this family name for the most part came from that parish. In England any man living near a pool or pond would be likely to have the reference of it attached to bis name. Thus, a man named John, who everybody knew lived near s«ch a place, would be distinguished from other Johns by the name "John atte Pool," the "atte" being simply a con- traction ot "at the." At a later period this "atte" was contracted to "a'." Thus the name wuold become "a'Pool," and finally Just "Pool." Ghoats! This is a story ot a diver who saw two ghosts. Ho had gone down to the wreck of a large steamer and was crossing the main saloon, when two gray shapes ot enormous size came ambling towards Mm. He did not wait to make notes, bat gave the danger signal and was pulled up. Told In the cheerful llshi ot day. It seemed rather a lame story, ao another diver went down to aee what he oould make ot It. Toward him alao came the ghostly fray shaj^aa. Re stood Irreaolute for a momant and then, going boldly for- ward, atmck hla hatchet throughâ€" a mtrror! Ths ghosts were only a dim reflection ot hi* own legs, much en- larged, ot course, as everything is that a diver sses through the great frontal •ys ot bis helmet Grounds of Divorce. "On what grounds did she get her divorce?" "Chicago, I believe." Upset stomach, sluKgish liver, and acid condi- tion cause bad breath. Seigel'a Syrup gets at tlio cause. Try it and liave a wholesome breath. Any drugstore. Duke of Marmalade. Among the whimsical titles whloh appear on the pages of national hte>- tory, tew are more apiparently frivol- ous than the Duke ot Marmalade, the Count of Lemonade, andi the Earl ot Brandy. They are, or were, however, real titles beetowed by a genuine mon- arch on three favorites during the last century. In 1811 a revolution occurred in Haytl, and Ohristophe, a Negro, de- clared himself emperor. Through con- spiracy and plot he retained power until 1820, preserving to the last the appearance of a Royal Court, and creating numerous nobility. Among them were the three men^ tloned; and far firom being instancea of the frivolity of the African charac- ter, they were names of places, the first two being originally plantations, btit latterly towns of some import- ance. The name ''Red Rose" has been a guarantee of quality iar 30 years RED ROSE XEA^is good tea The ORANdE PEKOE is extra good, fry ft/ Hospital for Sick Children. 67 College St., Toronto, 2, Ont. Christmas, 192S. Dear Mr. Editor:â€" This Is the fiftieth year â€" the semi- centennial of the Hospital tor Sick Children. It is the Golden Anniver- sary of an institution which started out in 1875 with a six-bed equipment to cure children medically of their Ill- nesses and to rid them surgically of their disabilities. Fifty years have passed and the tiny hospital has grown into one of the greateist insti- tutions of its kind in the whole world. The people of this province demand- ed this service â€" and they have made It possible by their Christmas Time gifts. They are rewarded by the knowledge that thousands of Ontario children will grow up into manhood or womanhood blessing the "little blue cots" wherein they were restored and strengthened to play a full part in the battle of life. To win back health tor six thousand boys and girls was the measure ot the Hospital's ward-service alone this year. Besides that there were over half a hundred thousand attendances in the Out-Patlent Department, where the less serious cases are treated. All this cost a great deal ot money, even though the doctors give freely of their skill and the nurses of their care. There is board and lodging and laundry to be provided, besides the best that can be procured in the way of all the medical and surgical supplies re- quired to treat the myriad aliments and accidents to which children are subject. In order to maintain Its high i.tand- ard of efficiency and also to widen the scope of Its service through clinics conducted all over Ontario, the Hos- pital Is compelled to borrow heavily during the year. On the occasion of its fiftieth Christmas an appeal is made to the public for the funds which will allow the Hospital for Sick Child- ren to enter upon its second half-cen- tnry of service with Its courage re- newed by a credit balance in the bank. It is indeed a noble cause which I feel sure you will cordially commend to your readers. Faithfully youra, IRVING E. ROBERTSON, Chairman Appeal Committee, i Note â€" This Hospital does not re- 1 ceive an appropriation from the I Federation for Community Service ! Drive. HILBLAIN5I Wash the fast with warm water and r a b with Minard'a. Quiokly stops the pain. J- " ' - ' SHIP US YOU/Z "» I POULTRY,GAME.EGGS, BUTTER '^"^ FEATHERS - We Buy all YtAiz Round • Wiie today for pricos - wo ^arantaa them for a week ahead P.PPUUN & Co.. LIMITED DOntQCOurs MarK#t â€" Mi %42i ortirgaX Masks. We go about behind our masks Of modern thoughts and modem tasks; And finally, when all are done. We weaj- a very ancient one. â€" Precott Hoard. Young Grandmotliers. A "youngest grandmother" record was set up years ago by a Lady Child I ot England, who was only 27 when she i nuraed her first grandchild. She her- self was a motlier at thirteen. SUmp Trade Highly Organized. Paris has long been a cosmopolitan â-  gathering place of stamp collectors from everywhere in the world. The . stamp trade In Pai-is is so thoroughly organized that It even has a curb mar- ket. Eel That's Not An Eel. The electric eel, the most powerful ot electric flsiies, is not an eel but a close relative of the sucker or carp. The meaning of "Iconoclas" is "a breaker of images" â€" that is, one op- posed to idol worship. Keep Minard's Liniment handy. ♦ . . Books for New-Born Babes. It Is curious that Bnglis-h mothers are alone In having no superstitious beliefs regarding methods of preser- ving their babies from natural or supernatural harm. Welsh mothers put a pair of tongs in the cradle; Irish mothers pin their tallh to the efficacy of a belt made of i women's hair and placed round a child. Roumanian mothers tie red ribbons round the ankles of their children to preserve them from harm. Swedish mothers always phice a book under the head of a new-born Infant so that It may be quick at learning to read. Money Is placed in Its first bath to guarantee Its wealth in the future. In Spain every infant's face is brushed with a pine-tree bough to bring good luck. '*• God With Us. God so determined even his defeats That they became his greatest vic- tories. God made his enemies as^ a wind to fill His homeward-rushing sails. Wher- ever he went The Loni was with him. and the Lord upheld bim. â€" Alfred Noves. GENUINE ASPIRIN PROVED SAFE Take without Fear as Told in "Bayer" Package Sither Kind Stops Coughs Buckley's Mixtu'ie -."Strong" or "Modified" will stop your cough or cold. Buckley's "Strong" is the same efficient remedy you have used before. Buckley's "Mod- ified" differs in tasta only. Made for those who find medicines dis- tasteful, particularly the children. Both Mixtures act like a flash on coughs, bron- chitis or any affection of throat, chest and lungs. 75c â€" 40 doses W. K. BuckUr. LlmltMl 1« Mutual St.. Toronto 2 207 HStofipe€f n^r Cough RMIC#, voiniuf t J Minard's Liniment for Chilblains. Does not affect the Heart Unless you see the "Bayer Cross" j j on package or on tablets you are not getUng*the genuine Bayer Tablets ot , Aspirin proved safe by millions and \ prescribed by physicians over twenty- . five years tor \ Colds Headache ! Neuritis Lumbago Toothache Rheumatism Keuralgia Pain, Pain Each unbroken "Bayer" package con- tains proven directions. Handy boxes of twelve tablets coat tew cants. Drug- gists also sell bottles o* 24 and 100. Why Suffer With Itching Rashes When a warm bath with Cuticura Soap and applica- tion of Caticura Ointiamt will afford immodiate relief aDd point to prrtnanent skin health in most cases when all else hUm. D^t: -stukraH, Cm., MMlnal.* PriMr»Me 2te. Om Oiwol a Mid SO*. TateMB Iw. Sir* C-Jticim SkaviiMr Stiek Me. ISSUE No. 4»â€" "M.